I’ve been trying to persuade git-svn to work properly with Rails plugins that have been installed via svn:externals. Whilst working out how to do it I stumbled across several great articles, but I couldn’t get any of the solutions presented to work perfectly. Samuel Tesla’s article is especially informative, but for a long time I couldn’t stop git-svn from trying to commit Git metadata back into my Subversion repository…
After a bit of head scratching I got it sorted, and wrapped the process up in a little utility called git-me-up.